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A guide and advice for economists on the US junior academic job market (2011-2012 edition)
Cawley, John - 2011
This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280697
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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? A study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
The proportion female in the economics profession in the U.S. has been low historically compared with other disciplines. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time, economics still lags many other fields....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283939
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Where do new Ph.D. economists go? Evidence from recent initial job placements
Chen, Jihui; Liu, Qihong; Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2012
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289846
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Fame and the fortune of academic economists: How the market rewards influential research in economics
Hilmer, Christiana E.; Hilmer, Michael J.; Ransom, … - 2012
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289961
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Guilt from promise-breaking and trust in markets for expert services: Theory and experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - 2010
experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269892
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The good, the bad and the naive: Do fair prices signal good types or do they induce good behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2012
Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do fair prices induce … good behavior, or do good experts post fair prices? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three seller … fixed effects regressions support the model's predictions and show that causality goes from good experts to fair prices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286902
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The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?
Dulleck, Uwe; Johnston, David W.; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce … "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three … selection and fixed effects regressions support the model's predictions and show that causality goes from good experts to fair …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279266
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment
Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Qiu, Jianying; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price before the expert’s … provision and charging decisions. We argue that the expert’s promise induces a commitment that triggers guilt if the promise is … experts make the predicted promise; (2) proper promises induce consumer-friendly behavior; and (3) higher interaction prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529143
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267640